Don't clear vm_mm in a deleted VMA as it's unnecessary and might conceivably
break the filesystem or driver VMA close routine.

Reported-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
---

 mm/nommu.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index d02ee35..3d39992 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -770,8 +770,6 @@ static void delete_vma_from_mm(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
        if (vma->vm_next)
                vma->vm_next->vm_prev = vma->vm_prev;
-
-       vma->vm_mm = NULL;
 }
 
 /*

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